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Living Carbon Neutral

No Impact Man will be screened on April 15, 4:30 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in north Ephraim. This documentary tells the story of a writer living in Manhattan who had the usual concerns about the future of the environment until he realized he wasn’t doing much about it.

The writer decided it was time he and his family did something to deal with the practical issues of global warming and environmental sustainability, so he set out on a grand experiment – to see if he, his wife, their young daughter, and their dog could live for a year in New York City without leaving any sort of carbon footprint. The wife, a writer for Businessweek with a taste for fashion, was a hard sell for the notion of spending a year without electricity, takeout, toilet paper, or motorized transportation, but in time she agreed and found that their new life was a life-changing experience.

Friends who were filmmakers decided to capture the family’s year of environmental purity on film, chronicling the nuts and bolts of living a carbon-neutral life as well as how the experience impacted the family. No Impact Man was an official selection at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

The film is part of the monthly Movies That Matter series examining a wide range of issues. The UU Fellowship is located at 10341 Highway 42 in north Ephraim. For more information call 920.854.7559.